The hard site was a specific area at Abu Ghraib where the most violent prisoners would be held. In one section were the criminally insane and high security prisoners, and in another area were women and children. The women and children were used to lure in a relative suspected of being a terrorist. The army would tell the alleged terrorist 'we have your wife or son or daughter and if you turn yourself in, they will be set free'. There were about 1,000 detainees in this part of the prison that were all suspected to be in some terrorist group, whether it is al-Queda or the Taliban or any other terrorist who killed Americans. Only 6 or 7 guards were in the hard site to watch over the world's most violent prisoners.
The problem with getting intelligence in the hard site was that most prisoners were there out of speculation. About 75-80% of the detainees had no information on terrorism, so the intelligence officers were getting nothing of value. The idea was to get enough prisoners that they would get at least a little bit of intelligence out of some of them, but they were unsuccessful.
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